Episode 22 – David Adler (CEO & Founder, BizBash)

This brief 20 minute talk touches on the magic that happens when people come together. David introduces the role of 'collaboration artist' and more... About David's company BizBash is North America’s #1 source of ideas, news, and resources for event and meeting professionals. Each month nearly 225,000 unique users look to BizBash for venue discovery, event style, technology, and tools for their next event. Thousands of event professionals attend our in-person events in major cities in the United States and Canada and listen to our podcast GatherGeeks monthly. [expand title="Podcast Transcript"] Qasim Virjee 0:24 Welcome back to this the 22nd episode of the start while podcast, this time around on back in the studio for a lovely little chat with my new friend David Adler. David Adler 0:36 So my name is David Adler, I'm the CEO of a company called bizbash. We're immediate company for the event industry in North America, we're probably the largest media company with magazines, websites, trade shows, for people that organize events all over the place. And it's where they get ideas and inspiration so that their events become better. Because events are the new town squares in the world, in my opinion, right? And that's kind of what you're doing here as well. This type of facility. Yeah, well, are creating this sort of working events. Qasim Virjee 1:10 Well, that's the thing. I mean, we call internally amongst our team, very agile team of four or five people. We look at every single quote unquote, meeting as an event, you know, people coming together is really if the festivity of meeting is what defines an event, or some sort of even output of the interaction, then that happens constantly here at Campus. Yeah, David Adler 1:31 well, you're gonna love this comment, because you're so speaking my language, because I believe event organizers. And people that bring people together are collaboration artists, more than they are just event organizers or business people or entrepreneurs, you really are a collaboration artist in the in the best sense of the world. And it's, it's where these ideas come to life. Because I also believe that in events when you don't judge an event anymore by how many people attend, but it's about how many conversations are curated, right? And it's all about the social physics of how ideas flow. Yeah. And you what you've done here is you've created sort of the social physics that allow people interact in an organic way, that creates an amazing amount of positive outcomes. The most powerful word in English language is the word let's Yeah, because whenever people get together, they say, Let's go to lunch. Let's go to dinner. Let's hook up let's start a revolution. What about this idea between different groups that never knew they would ever meet each other? Yeah. And it's this, it's the social physics of how people how ideas spread? Qasim Virjee 2:40 Absolutely. I totally concur. I think it's something that, of course, in the media landscape of today. And you know, the pop media landscape of today, where people are feeling kind of like society's more stratified than ever, despite them being more interconnected with technology. I think these places exist to help remind people that they can come together, and they don't need to come together to fight anything, necessarily. They need to come together to be together to discover what that means a lot of the time. And it's kind of funny for us, because we're also one part of our business, of course, is being an event venue. And for the first year and a half of that business line. You know, I was like, Well, what does this mean? You know, I've worked I've been a DJ that's performed all over the world and a video jockey that's performed for like, you know, events at you. You live in New York. Yeah. So, you know, the Tibetan mu